[HWYSTR455]

Yeah I didn't realize that. The Bilstein's shaft protectors on mine always contacted the exhaust where it goes over the rear tube, always melted on mine.

I went back & forth with Speedtech over the QA1s not fitting, and they kept telling me to mount it from the top? I was like, how can you possibly compress the spring with the shock in the way? They just couldn't understand, or at least the guy I was talking to didn't. I sent him a number of pics, and then finally, he agreed, it can't be installed the way he was telling me to install them.

And once he reach that conclusion, his response was 'Well, they are originally designed for a coilover setup, coil spring use is secondary'. And I showed him right on their' website, the listing states 'can be used with factory parts'.

And then they went dark on me. Unbelievable.

The QA1s do work with the OE LCAs.

Another thing, even if I could get it mounted in there, the coil spring 'pad' would prevent any adjustments while installed. And you would still have to hog out the pad to allow the adjusters up in there.

The GW arms have a larger hole, and the pad is larger around too, so the QA1s work with them. And they have nuts welded on the inside of the arm so the shock bolts can go in from the bottom. QA1s come with a bolt and nut.

I even went as far as using rivnuts in the arms so I could run a bolt up from the bottom. There's just no way they will work with the QA1s.

Maybe QA1 will fix the design of the lower arms, so people in the future will not get stuck like I did.

To top it all off, the arms dropped my ride height by 1-1.5" too. Was not happy at all with them, will never buy them again or recommend them to anyone.



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